Falah Mustafa Bakir

Falah Mustafa Bakir (born 1964) is the Head of Foreign Relations of the country of Kurdistan.

Biography
Bakir was born in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1964 and in 1986 gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature at the University of Mosul in Iraq. He speaks English, Kurdish, and Arabic fluently, as he also attended the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.

From 1996 to 1999 he served as the Public Relations Officer of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and served as Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation from 1999 to 2002. In 2006 he founded the Department of Foreign Relations of Kurdistan. On the capture of Kirkuk in 2014, he told VICE News: "Kirkuk has been the symbol of our oppression. It has been the symbol of our deprivation. It has been the symbol of our denial of the rights of the rich people. So there have been attempts in order to change realities underground, to have the rights we deserved. Kirkuk is important because of the oil that it has. In all of Kurdistan we have oil and gas, so it's not about oil and gas. It's about people, it's about land, it's about justice."